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Thanks to the advent of sensitive and broad bandwidth instrumentation, complex organic molecules (COMs) have been found in a wide variety of interstellar environments, not only in our Galaxy but also in external galaxies up to a redshift of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-24 Izaskun Jimenez-Serra , Claudio Codella , Arnaud Belloche

We report results of the CO(J=3-2) and HCO+(J=4-3) observations of the W40 HII region with the ASTE 10 m telescope (HPBW~22 arcsec) to search for molecular outflows and dense clumps.We found that the velocity field in the region is highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tomomi Shimoikura , Kazuhito Dobashi , Fumitaka Nakamura , Chihomi Hara , Tomohiro Tanaka , Yoshito Shimajiri , Kouji Sugitani

Cold molecular gas is found in several clusters of galaxies (Edge, 2001, Salome' & Combes, 2003): single dish telescope observations in CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission lines have revealed the existence of large amounts of cold gas (up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Salome , F. Combes

We report a catalog of 509 pairs identified among 10403 nearby galaxies with line-of-sight velocities V_LG < 3500 km/s.We selected binary systems in accordance with two criteria (bounding and temporal), which require the physical pair of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 I. D. Karachentsev , D. I. Makarov

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

We present measurements of the 3.4-micron hydrocarbon dust absorption feature, and four visual diffuse interstellar bands, for twelve highly reddened (9.0<A(V)<15.8), early-type stars identified from the Stephenson (1992) catalogue,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. G. Rawlings , A. J. Adamson , D. C. B. Whittet

The sample of 566 molecular clouds identified in the CO(2--1) IRAM survey covering the disk of M~33 is explored in detail.The clouds were found using CPROPS and were subsequently catalogued in terms of their star-forming properties as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Jonathan Braine , Erik Rosolowsky , Pierre Gratier , Edvige Corbelli , Karl Schuster

CO--0.40--0.22 is a peculiar molecular cloud that is compact and has an extraordinary broad velocity width. It is found in the central molecular zone of our Galaxy. In this direction, there is another cloud with an H$_2$O maser spot at a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Yuhei Iwata , Haruka Kato , Daisuke Sakai , Tomoharu Oka

Using the IRAM 30m telescope two molecular structures have been detected which cover very small areas, FWHM<1'. The clouds have velocities of v_lsr~5kms and linewidth of dv~0.8km/s; thus they belong most likely to the Milky Way. Applying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Heithausen

Multi-wavelength studies of their circumstellar environments around LBVs are essential to quantify their feedback at Galactic scales. Dominant emission mechanisms at millimetre wavelengths are, however, still poorly understood. Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 J. R. Rizzo , C. Bordiu , A. Ritacco

This is the second in a series of papers presenting a new calculation of the mass of the Galaxy based on radial velocities and distances for a sample of faint 16 < B < 21.3 field blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars. We present accurate BV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Clewley , S. J. Warren , P. C. Hewett , John E. Norris , N. W. Evans

We present 5-15 micron imaging spectroscopy of the reflection nebulae vdB 17 (NGC 1333), vdB 59 (NGC 2068), vdB 101, vdB 111, vdB 133 and vdB 135, obtained with the infrared camera and circular variable filter wheel on the Infrared Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. I. Uchida , K. Sellgren , M. W. Werner , M. L. Houdashelt

We present here results of studies of the properties of galaxies located in very low density environments. We observed 26 blue compact galaxies (BCGs) from the Second Byurakan (SBS) and Case surveys located in voids with the radial…

We used the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain high resolution i-band images of the centers of 23 single galaxies, which were selected because they have SDSS velocity dispersions larger than 350 km/s.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. B. Hyde , M. Bernardi , R. K. Sheth , R. C. Nichol

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and supermassive black holes. Using multi-epoch Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Yang , Yongjun Chen , Leonid I. Gurvits , Zsolt Paragi , Aiyuan Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Zhiqiang Shen

The bulk flow velocity for the cluster of interstellar cloudlets within about 30 pc of the Sun is determined from optical and ultraviolet absorption line data, after omitting from the sample stars with circumstellar disks or variable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. C. Frisch , L. Grodnicki , D. E. Welty

We report results from a 2003 FUSE observation, and reanalysis of a 1996 HST observation of the unusual X-ray transient Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy WPVS 007. The HST FOS spectrum revealed mini-BALs with V_max ~ 900 km s^-1 and FWHM ~ 550…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 Karen M. Leighly , Fred Hamann , Darrin A. Casebeer , Dirk Grupe

We have made an unbiased survey for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp. This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l = 252 deg to 266 deg and b = -5 deg to -1 deg, has revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 clouds were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masanori Nakagawa , T. Onishi , A. Mizuno , Y. Fukui

During the UIT/Astro Spacelab missions, the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope obtained spatially resolved far-UV (lambda 1500 A) imagery of ~35 galaxies exhibiting recent massive star formation. The sample includes disk systems, irregular,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael N. Fanelli , Theodore P. Stecher , the UIT Science Team

Kinematics of the molecular clouds in the star forming complex M17 is studied using the high-resolution CO-line mapping data at resolution ($20" \sim 0.2$ pc) with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope. The northern molecular cloud of M17, which we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Yoshiaki Sofue